We parked by the railroad tracks and wore our microspikes for the first 3 miles or so before switching to snowshoes. The snow started out very hard packed and icy and there were two sketchy creek crossings where other groups turned around. Both crossing involved walking across a narrow, icy snow covered log but we felt comfortable crossing them with our microspikes on. It was a little confusing trying to stay on the trail with all of the cross country ski tracks and we went a little off trail a couple times but we were able to find the lake using our GPS. We had clear blue skies and the lake was frozen over and beautiful in the sunshine. The snow was about 3-4ft deep, a few more feet of snow and avalanche danger would most likely be a concern. We saw a couple mini avalanches about halfway to the lake.
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